Adam Carnall
Chancellor's Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAdam Carnall is an astrophysicist and Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh with a decade of research experience focused on galaxy formation and public-facing scientific software. He leads the ERC Starting Grant project "OMG: The Origins of Massive Galaxies," combining observational insight and code development to probe how massive galaxies assemble. His career progressed through a PhD, postdoc, and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at Edinburgh, reflecting deep institutional expertise and teaching experience. Beyond papers, he builds and maintains public research software that enables reproducible astrophysics, bridging complex analysis with accessible tools. Based in Edinburgh, he brings a rare mix of theoretical rigor, hands-on programming, and project leadership in large-scale galaxy evolution studies.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics at The University of EdinburghMPhys, Physics and Astronomy, First Class Honours - 82% average grade, MPhys, Physics and Astronomy, First Class Honours - 82% average grade at Durham UniversityHigh School, High School at Thirsk School and Sixth Form College
Github Skills (35)
spectra10
galaxy10
pip10
cloning10
python9
sampling9
pythonic9
bayesian9
brain-computer-interface9
monte-carlo9
bayesian-inference8
random-walk8
visualization7
grid7
pypi7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ACCarnall/ICIC_DAW
Aug 2018 - Apr 2020
Code written for the 2018 ICIC data analysis workshop.
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 1 year 7 months
data-analysispythondata-scienceworkshopeda
ACCarnall/bagpipes
Nov 2017 - Sep 2019
Bagpipes is a state of the art code for generating realistic model galaxy spectra and fitting these to spectroscopic and photometric observations. Users should install with pip, not by cloning the repository.
Contributions:105 commits, 16 PRs, 152 pushes in 1 year 10 months
pythonartpipstate-of-the-artgalaxy
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